The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 7
‘Hi! you fellow!’ called he, ‘what have you got inside there?’
Who acts: you · What happens: fellow, call, get · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 2 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 5 fellow | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hi | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nsubj |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 got | obj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 called | conj |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 got | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fellow | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | you | there | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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